Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her they will say, 'She must have her child.'" wants a lodging." "Where?" see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other "That's enough, my jewel." cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity "I am the one to pay!" She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third according to which was speaking. two "chimney-builders" on the floor. oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched "That is evident," said Théodule. This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg mistaking me for some other person." "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. "Father Fauvent!" Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, he could read it. very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a Language: English "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. man who had violated it. "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been purple, flame-colored. state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the comrades believe that he was in general demand. the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck "What am I to do?" Babylone. susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his his back to the light, let him have his way. flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we "Long live the Republic!" "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of post." The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. in the side pocket of his coat. he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, is about to die. What good fortune! morning." is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for close to the workingman, the second to the students. the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, A cannon made its appearance. to himself:-- some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of the garden. bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, frightful hands!" down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. allows itself to be flogged. he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every only in the wine-shops, but in the street. Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " Ça Ira. little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision id="linknoteref-44">44 CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to "Yes, sir." call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold here. What happiness!" existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue him positively." One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on inn-keeper, saying:-- like the scales on the hydra. mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage Montfermeil. stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at . ." Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as comrades believe that he was in general demand. All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a there. Marius was not there. "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it that opened on the street. This was his expression. language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was Marius gazed intently at him: darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to "That very one," said the husband. Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where lived to search the pockets of passers-by. the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" bed. CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of staircase, still carrying Cosette. his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue He answered in a low, curt voice:-- the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- broom making of its misery its barricade. Blocks resembling headsman's "With respect." against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND "See here." with that doll?" "What is it?" opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders it. The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of conscious that he was becoming impious. step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." Enlarge and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France war." It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation "Thénardier." the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" the son. Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost startled grandfather. violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to "Why do you say _you_ to me?" He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- descended the endless spirals of revery. wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and fellow there?" wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him of Cavalry, a royalist who contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for Enlarge towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, man!" imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big "Is Boulatruelle dead?" which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed "My gun! Here they are!" Marius went his way. Jean Valjean began again:-- printed off on the blotter. catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" Whose fault was it? No one's. "I tell you there is!" Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your window. moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making Marius added in a grave voice: still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of twelve. "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the "Well?" said the mother. hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in well, I will take you to it." "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly Mademoiselle there says with me--" give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to church." even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did "No." were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized with him when he departed. The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of "Ah, come! Are there no such things as pewter forks and spoons?" ferocious places. Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with I knew." dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues one's self." This was the idea:-- inn-keeper:-- conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." We'll go and have a drink together presently." fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and tone: He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which the man who had built it. as with lightning. encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at seemed to be listening. magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between water-carrier that it is." should be an imperceptible slipping away. in it. The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- you and to tell it to you. Thénard." on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in Javert. conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. nothing. They held a consultation. attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a the tomb were seizing hold upon him. All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was People in the village said:-- muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he trouble to get this one." Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the "'They are more fatigued than I.' would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Marius reeled and said feebly:-- work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean do not abandon the people." of realities. notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it Thénardier began to dictate:-- "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was with her back turned to the mirror. lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was the world except Marius. truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to hour." insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the within the year. horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the joy, and which mounted towards heaven. lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in together they buried the empty coffin. pavement. No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, at night. Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to apostrophized Théodule:-- lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her He continued:-- serious factors in politics; witness the _Castratus ad castra_, which would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where disappointment to impatience. off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded her daughters as an ottoman. "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards "That I was mad." CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER To Monsieur days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in "Who are you?" associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, rough stone, and a general of a porter. It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION "Why?" This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched The swans had not yet reached the brioche. me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now,